"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Rapid AIDS: The FDA has approved a blood test for HIV that can be done in 20 minutes in the doctor’s office:
The new AIDS test, called OraQuick and made by OraSure Technologies Inc., has 99.6 percent accuracy from testing a drop of blood drawn from a finger and is simple to use, the Food and Drug Administration
Don’t expect it to be available at your private physician’s office, though. The test isn’t CLIA-waived . CLIA is the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments which restricts what testing doctors can do in their offices without being overseen by federal authorities. Doing tests that aren’t waived in the office is a big pain, so until or unless it gets a waived-status, it isn’t likely to be adopted by many physicians. posted by Sydney on
2/03/2003 08:33:00 AM
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